"Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
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“Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.”
“Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.”
“The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.”
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“The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.”
“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”
“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.”
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“Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.”
“Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.”
“The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.”